We should have all our communications with men, as in the presence of God; and with God, as in the presence of men.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.